Time to Get Tough
How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life
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Pages: 248
Illustrations: 33 b&w photos
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
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Hardcover
Pub Date: 10/15/2018
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5462-0
List Price: $25.95
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Pub Date: 09/01/2021
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5776-8
List Price: $20.95
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Pub Date: 10/01/2018
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5461-3
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Time to Get Tough
How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life
An inspirational and unconventional Georgia-grown success story
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Michael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree or an MBA from a top-ten business school. He grew up poor, starting work at the age of thirteen. He had many false starts and painful defeats, but Coles has a habit of defying expectations. His life and career have been about turning obstacles into opportunities, tragedies into triumphs, and poverty into philanthropy.
In Time to Get Tough, Coles explains how he started a $100-million company with only $8,000, overcame a near-fatal motorcycle accident, ran for the U.S. Congress, and set three transcontinental cycling world records. His story also offers a firsthand perspective on the business, political, and philanthropic climate in the last quarter of the twentieth century and serves as an important case study for anyone interested in overcoming a seemingly insurmountable challenge. Readers will also discover practical leadership lessons and unconventional ways of approaching business.
—Publishers Weekly
—Ben Chestnut, cofounder and CEO, MailChimp
—John Rice, CEO, GE Global Growth
—Steve Koonin, CEO, Atlanta Hawks
—James C. Kennedy, Chairman, Cox Enterprises
—Dr. Kathy Schwaig, Dean Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University
—Jennifer Brett, Atlanta Journal Constitution
—Southern Seasons Magazine